/lit/ - Literature

Any books on how to be funny? Not try-hard funny, genuine funny.

post goodreads shelf and others would r8

I'll start:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/47904681?shelf=%23ALL%23

What are some good biographies of non-political and non-literary figures?

Are there any /lit/ magazines worth regularly reading or subscribing to? It doesn't just have to cover literature/writing related stuff, could span a wide range of subjects

Get this. You literally can't tell a difference between a read person and an unread person in real life. Or a person that reads Dostoevsky and a person that reads John Green.
A YA reader that presents his idea in a lucrative way will appear more wise than you and me that read Tolstoy or Nietzsche.
The window is so small in real life interactions you can't display any nuances of your depth or wisdom.
So what's the point?

Where is the most /lit/erary place one could live?

Hey /lit/. Rate the first paragraph of my novella. And feel free to post your own first paragraphs. I'd like to discuss what makes an engaging opening to a story.

He took the challenge lightly. It's almost imperceptible that he took it at all. No question had been asked more than how this series of behavior was meant to come to a climactic end, revealing that Foster Quinn had been the hero all this time.
To look at him in real time is looking at digression it's self. But in accordance to the plot, he is never out of shouting distance. He can be summoned to move things forward. However, as often as he drinks, it is easier to lead him further astray and let the story unfold it's self